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Comment Re:This Donut Tastes Funny (Score 1) 294

The phrase "There's a sucker born every minute" would be apt for this.

Scams / snake oil / etc have been around since before recorded Human history, and will never stop being a thing.

For every person living their own personal "hindsight is 20/20" moment falling for a scam, learning to be careful next time, you get more than one person being born and not knowing of the lesson.

Comment Good Luck Finding A Second Chance Elsewhere (Score 1) 62

Not going to say that it's impossible, but ignoring that their name has been reported on in the news and just focusing on the people in academia: it can be a very close-knit community.

I know of a case of a doctoral student getting kicked out their doctoral programme, and given the boot from their university because they failed to disclose a previously attempted doctoral programme at another university in another country. I don't know the details but former doctoral supervisor and current supervisor were in contact/communication and the current university found out that they'd bombed/exited out of the previously-attempted PhD programme.

Wouldn't be surprised if it could have been sniffed out even without any communication in some fields of stud due to how specific and unique the research focus has to be for a PhD.

Comment Is Tim concerned about Pushback on AI Slop... (Score 1) 69

... that may affect some future roll-out of integrating more generative AI tools directly into UE5, or this is about the current 3rd party tools for UE5 that are enabling developers to add AI created stuff into their game projects?

Epic choosing or not to force game listings to display information on AI usage is one thing, and they have the right to do that or not, but it sounds like Tim is wanting the rest of the market to follow EGS for hiding this information. If it was a market vs market thing, then customers can "vote with their wallet" but it feels like this is more than just EGS vs Steam.

Comment Re:Keep it plugged in (Score 1) 173

Yeah, and I will take it to the extreme for arctic environments (just to point out that with sufficient coldness even ICE cars face their own issues).

Car owners in Yakutsk have to: have a heated garaged (the heater running 24/7) to store their car, leave their car's engine running non-stop 24/7 (the engine left on to idle when not in use), or forgo the use of car during the Winter months and let the car freeze up. If the car engine stops, or the car is not kept in a heated environment when not-in-use, it may be impossible to get the car started until it warms up in Spring.

Comment I would argue that is the future of The Past (Score 2) 175

The Past being "being able to curate a collection of stuff that we increasingly get told that we no longer buy and/or own". For the people that this matters , of course.

It starts out small, and often not very noticeable, but is a like a digital comparable to half life of radioactive decay for data. Over the span of many years, we lose track/copies of things in a seemingly random manner. Ebooks, digital video/music purchases, video/music on physical media, our personal email data, photo collections saved to our phones/cloud-servers, etc.

If one doesn't try to maintain some collection of digital information, and just have a single copy on their phone/computer of recent stuff, then someone might find themselves with a gap of decades of their life missing.

That video of their child's first birthday party? Was only on that HTC Magic phone that you lost at the beach. The graduation photos of your child? You did back it up to Apple Cloud, but you got locked out of that account in 2032 and you never had any other copies elsewhere. All of your emails before 2038? Gone when Gmail lost it all in a massive failure at one of their data centres that effected millions of users in 2038.

Though physical letters, old B&W photographs, etc, arenot perfect (could still be damaged/lost) but we can still look up a lot on people from centuries ago.

Though having said that, government/corporate databases and profiles on everyone will probably last forever. Potentially every mouse movement, mouse clicks, etc, on every website visited, every single email/text/chat ever sent or received archived. As long as there is an economic or political value in it, then they will want to hold onto it forever.

Comment Re:It's not a next-gen xbox console (Score 1) 40

If they are on the PC Game Pass, and you are a current subscriber to it, then yes.

For me the software side to the Xbox Ally and Ally X are much more interesting than the whole product itself. I will be very interested to see experts get a hold of the OS image — looking closely at the changes and how it operates differently to BAU Win11.

Assuming that the Armory Crate software is not too integrated into the OS, I'd like to see attempts at getting the OS running on desktop PC hardware.

Comment Private Equity's New Target: Private Equity Itself (Score 2) 73

"60% of the 5,500 finance professionals present will be "looking for work" next year due to AI disruption."

Super optimistic or deeply cynical take from Robert F. Smith.

It sounds like he thinks that AI is either "primed and ready to make solid decisions and not hallucinate bankrupt Private Equity firms", or "that 60% of the people in Private Equity are so useless that hallucinating LLMs can replace them".

Probably more thinking of keeping more of the money "in-house" with the wealth class as it seems like Private Equity can only fail upwards.

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